"An analysis by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, a nonpartisan research group, found that if Trump deployed 3,000 National Guard troops to Chicago it would cost taxpayers around $1,590,000 per day. It’s the latest runaway expense — expected to climb into the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars — connected to Trump’s efforts to turn the U.S. into a genuine police state.
“Deploying National Guard troops to Chicago is only going to add to taxpayers’ growing tab for these law-and-order optics,” said Stephen Ellis, the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog group. “Spending millions of dollars a day on troops milling about major American cities is a waste of their time and squanders precious resources.”
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles was illegal and harkened back to Britain’s use of soldiers as law enforcement officers in colonial America. He warned that Trump intends to transform the National Guard into a presidential police force.
It remains unclear whether that judicial decision will be enforced. Given the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year decreeing that federal district courts cannot issue injunctions against federal policies nationwide, any decision on a Chicago occupation would have to come from a case of its own.
Trump has threatened to deploy troops to Chicago for weeks, following militarized crackdowns in Los Angeles in June and in Washington, D.C., last month. “I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in D.C. Chicago will be safe again, and soon,” Trump posted to TruthSocial on Tuesday, the same day that the federal judge deemed the California troop deployment illegal."
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Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless
Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
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“Walk the Talk” by VERSION2
A political punch straight out of Nagaland—thrash metal muscle fused with punk fury. The guitars snarl, the rhythms never let up, and the rage cuts through every line. This Naga rock song wails.
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TikTok actualiza sus mensajes directos: ahora permite fotos, videos y notas de voz
TikTok anunció una actualización significativa en su plataforma de mensajería interna, los mensajes directos (DM), que permitirá a los...Digna Irene Urrea (ENTER.CO)
NFL season kicks off in Philadelphia
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Deebo Samuel Sr. is ‘a dog.’ The Commanders are excited to see him bite.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/09/04/deebo-samuel-debut/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Gli anziani che fanno colazione tardi vivono meno e peggio
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⛔️🇷🇺Ryazan oil refinery, Russia (PHOTOS) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #NukesForUkraine #Germany #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
'Finding ways of limiting Africans’ advancement was central to #Belgium’s strategy for sustaining its dominance over a land so rich in resources that it was often called a “geological scandal.” '
#HowardFrench reviews #TheLumumbaPlot, #MyCountryAfrica, and the #documentary #SoundtrackToACoupDÉtat
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‘A Damn Nuisance’
Patrice Lumumba’s vision for a newly independent Congo fell victim to historical circumstances that were too powerful for him to overcome.Howard W. French (The New York Review of Books)
New on ASTROCOHORS CLUB: "UN Secretary-General visits the forests of Papua New Guinea"
UN Secretary-General visits the forests of Papua New Guinea
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I'm Reeves Wiedeman、New York Magazineの作家をフィーチャーしています。私は、拡張されたケネディファミリーがRFK
ロバート・F・ケネディ・ジュニアが2月に保健福祉省長官として確認された後、民主党政治で最も有名な家族が、家族が何十年にもわたって建設を支援した多くの機関の後にトランプ政権に突然奉仕していたという事実をどのように扱っていたかを理解したかった。私たちの 最新のカバーストーリーNEWS (WACOCA NEWS)
TIL that a jockey by the name of Frank Hayes died of a heart attack during a race, then won. Posthumously.
While alive he had never won a race. If he had lived only a few minutes longer, he would have.
(By the way, I don’t support the industrialization of animals. Especially for our entertainment. I just thought it was an interesting story.)
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#TIL #History #FrankHayes #WinningWhileDead
Armani, il genio che ha reinventato Hollywood
https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/2025/09/05/news/armani_il_genio_che_ha_reinventato_hollywood-15295710/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Armani, il genio che ha reinventato Hollywood
Nel 1980 veste Gere in “American Gigolo” ed è una rivoluzione. Diane Keaton, Julia Roberts e Jodie Foster tra le star più amateRaffaella Silipo (La Stampa)
Democratico e antifascista, Armani vestiva i politici ma diffidava di loro
https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/2025/09/05/news/democratico_e_antifascista_armani_vestiva_i_politici_ma_diffidava_di_loro-15295775/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Democratico e antifascista, Armani vestiva i politici ma diffidava di loro
Con Mattarella molta stima, di Draghi disse: «Lo vorrei come padre»Maria Corbi (La Stampa)
Antonia Dell’Atte: “Armani vedeva fuori dagli schemi, così mi ha resa un’icona”
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/09/05/news/antonia_dell_atte_armani_moda_fashion_milano-15295795/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Antonia Dell’Atte: “Armani vedeva fuori dagli schemi, così mi ha resa un’icona”
La musa: “Mi ha plasmata come un diamante grezzo”Michela Tamburrino (La Stampa)
La serie sul Mostro di Firenze: “Ieri i compagni di merende, oggi i guardoni sono sui social “
https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/2025/10/05/news/la_serie_sul_mostro_di_firenze_ieri_i_compagni_di_merende_oggi_i_guardoni_sono_sui_social_-15295909/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su La Stampa Spettacoli @la-stampa-spettacoli-LaStampa
La serie sul Mostro di Firenze: “Ieri i compagni di merende, oggi i guardoni sono sui social “
Stefano Sollima, regista della serie Netflix: «Un racconto ancora molto attuale»La Stampa
E l’azzurro diventò Blu Giorgio, lo stile unico dell’Italia sportiva
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/09/05/news/armani_sport_blu_giorgio-15295716/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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E l’azzurro diventò Blu Giorgio, lo stile unico dell’Italia sportiva
Ha vestito basket, calcio e sci. Sue le divise per i Giochi di Milano-Cortina ’26Daniela Cotto (La Stampa)
Il suk online dei video privati: violate le telecamere di case, studi medici e centri estetici
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/09/05/news/il_suk_online_dei_video_privati_violate_le_telecamere_di_case_studi_medici_e_centri_estetici-15295902/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il suk online dei video privati: violate le telecamere di case, studi medici e centri estetici
La denuncia partita da Treviso e dal caso De Martino. I server registrati alle TongaArcangelo Rociola (La Stampa)
RFK Jr.'s showdown with the Senate
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The Plot to Make Beijing Save the Hong Kong Property Market
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RFK Jr. restricts vaccines. 🚫💉. PA, CO & MA are stepping up — cutting red tape so residents can get updated shots without barriers. ✅
Meglio se domani mi faccio consigliare quale metodo sia migliore per far in modo che possa eseguire Windows e Linux pur mantenendo i dati da entrambi i lati...
anche se però mi sono già preso un mal di testa per quel dannato errore GRUB che non avevo un'assoluta idea di come funzionano ste cose...
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Un coro che canta con le mani tra le novità di Musica Ragazzi: ecco la stagione dei 20 anni
La presentazione tra bilanci e sogni. Nel programma anche i pianisti Filippo Gorini e Andrea Lucchesini, la violoncellista Miriam Prandi e il fischio musicale di Tommaso Novi
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“Here We Are” (2024) by Fifth Note
This one taps straight into hair metal energy—soaring high-pitched vocals, drums marching in lockstep, and guitars that absolutely shred. It’s Naga rock with arena-sized swagger, and the talent on display is undeniable.
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There's some really gross hypocricy on Fedi regarding AI by computer scientists/ tech enthusiasts who are vocally critical of some aspects of generative AI for appearances, but who are actively benefiting from the AI bubble professionally, and talking out of both sides of their mouth.
There is also some gross classism in the decrying of people's intelligence who are using it to take shortcuts (as if they are the problem, not the wealth-class or hypercompetitive neo-liberalism).
I think we are making a mistake listening to half-assed criticisms from uncredible sources while focusing on the users of generative AI, instead of directing our ire at the tech industry itself.
There is a complete lack of accountability from the tech world to begin with about all the decisions that led us to the AI bubble.
It is just one of a long string of disastrous failures (#enshittification) and framing it as an AI-only issue, or an issue of degrees ("I know how to use it ethically!"), evades responsibility for the decades long growth of tech-surveillance capitalism.
AI is the logical endpoint of early 21st century tech, and criticisms of it need to be grounded in criticisms of the tech industry in general. #AI #Tech
AI isn't a bubble quercus
LLMs are a generational advance in computer science and cybernetics. there's nothing faddish about them.
AI, or synthetic intelligence or general intelligence - whatever you want to call intelligent machines - have only to become somewhat more imaginative and specifically motivated to be indistinguishable from most articulate, intellectual humans.
those scientists aren't being hypocrites: they're voicing the same dismay at the use of GPT etc. to produce so-called "slop" as most folk.
but they're better informed with respect to the broader applications of machine intelligence - which of course pre-date chatGPT etc. - and are more positive, and no doubt excited by, the future of the technology.
Strauss thrice with Lam once from Sydney - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Andrea Lam, piano, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young play: R.STRAUSS: Metamorphosen – Study for 23 solo strings. Burleske for piano and orchestra. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30. Live....www.worldconcerthall.com
Illustrations made for the new Fantasy Brawl minigame update on aes.land during my streams.
Come try it if you like blocky games: it's all libre software
#Luanti #PixelArt #GameDev #Videogames #Gaming #FreeSoftware #Art #PixelfedArt
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#Alberta Canada picks of the day:
➡️ @livewirecalgary - Independent news outlet based in Calgary
➡️ @VintageEdmonton - Newspaper articles, images, other materials from history of Edmonton
➡️ @albertawildernessassociation - Wilderness conservation group in Alberta
➡️ @alberta_palaeo_society - Promoting palaeontology & connecting palaeontologists in Alberta
➡️ @PopAlberta - Organisation of doctors, nurses, citizens advocating for public health in Alberta
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#Alberta Canada picks of the day (continuned):
🌤️ Weather accounts for Alberta, Canada:
@brooks__alberta
@calgary__alberta
@camrose__alberta
@edmonton__alberta
@fort_mcmurray__alberta
@lethbridge__alberta
@lloydminster__alberta
@medicine_hat__alberta
@peace_river__alberta
@red_deer__alberta
@spruce_grove__alberta
@st_albert__alberta
@wetaskiwin__alberta
You can find lots more Fediverse weather accounts for cities & towns around the world at fedimeteo.com
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Real-time weather updates for the Fediverse covering 38 countriesfedimeteo.com
#Alberta Canada picks of the day (continued):
The accounts below are discussion groups. Follow a group to see its discussions in your timeline, mention a group to post to it. (More info about how to use Fediverse groups: fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on…)
➡️ @alberta - Alberta discussion group
➡️ @calgary - Calgary discussion group
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PART OF THE THREAD, IT MIGHT SPAM THE GROUPS.
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Monochrome – Hector Lake, Canadian Rockies 🌄
This black and white fine art photograph captures the serene stillness of Hector Lake, where towering peaks reflect in calm alpine waters. The absence of color highlights contrast, light, and texture—bringing timeless beauty to life.
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Maresco e De Gregori illuminano la Mostra vicina al tramonto
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Maresco e De Gregori illuminano la Mostra vicina al tramonto
Un film fatto per bene, ritratto del regista palermitano in Concorso e il documentario Francesco De Gregori Nevergreen, fuori gara, sono le pellicole italiane …La Stampa
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